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Countries participating in the Rim of the Pacific 2018 exercise had a chance to show off their most innovative solutions to maritime challenges — from high-end game-changers like a virtual reality system to help corpsmen perform battlefield surgeries, to more simple but highly applicable items like a floating damage control bag. The innovation fair and competition build off of the 2016 RIMPAC's introduction of innovation as a focus area, and were meant to help the 25 participating countries show off their solutions to common problems — particularly in the areas of port security, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, virtual and augmented reality, energy, and data and information management — that could be adopted by other nations or could spark other ideas for how to address challenges at home.
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| There is 'No Safe Harbor'
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As articulated in our webinar about the subject and our White Paper, "No Safe Harbor," the cybersecurity risk in the maritime domain is increasing, not decreasing. For maritime stakeholders (port authorities, shipping companies, cruise lines, etc.), now is the time to look at a scalable cyber risk management tool that can identify your assets, their key vulnerabilities, and potential exploits, and prioritize them for you using intelligence resources and a dashboard visual Risk Score that can help you manage the threats.
The Academy has identified RiskSense as a STAR Product, and through a unique Public-Private Partnership is in the process of identifying key ports where a pilot program can demonstrate how proactive cyber risk management can significantly impact the maritime domain. If you want to learn more about cyber risk management, and why RiskSense is getting a lot of national, industry and government attention, check out this story in American Security Today. You'll see an interview with the RiskSense CEO Dr. Srinivas Makkamala, and a breakdown of what makes RiskSense so different in this evolving world.
If you would like to be part of this cybersecurity pilot program or would like to learn more about how RiskSense platform can provide the cyber risk management tools that you need to safety and securely become proactive vs. reactive for as little as $12.50 per device, contact us at Cyber@nmlea.org. You can also contact us for confidential, no-cost cybersecurity risk assessment.
NMLEA
This week FEMA released “Planning Considerations: Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks” to aid all community partners, including all levels of government, infrastructure owners and operators, small businesses, non-profit organizations, and volunteer organizations, in planning and preparing for complex coordinated terrorist attack scenarios.
Complex coordinated terrorist attacks represent an evolving and dynamic terrorist threat with the potential for mass casualties and infrastructure damage anywhere and at any time. The guide includes the unique characteristics of complex coordinated terrorist attacks, identifies potential challenges, and discusses the six-step planning process as it relates to complex coordinated terrorist attacks. The guide also provides information on identifying the capabilities necessary to respond to complex coordinated terrorist attacks using the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, and includes a list of relevant, available resources.
To download a copy of Planning Considerations: Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks visit https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1532550673102-c4846f270150682decbda99b37524ca6/Planning_Considerations-Complex_Coordinated_Terrorist_Attacks.pdf.
To help in planning, training, exercise development and consultation as it relates to CCTA preparedness, contact the Academy staff for experienced assistance by emailing us at Info@nmlea.org.
NMLEA
As the heat builds up in the body due to increased stress, anxiety and the adrenaline spikes commonly associated with deception and stress, subjects will perform various behaviors intended to lower body temperature. Sweating is common among the guilty and innocent, but the need to ventilate physically is far more common to appear in deceptive and high-stress subjects.
Using clothing and other objects, ventilation behavior can appear in several forms:
- Pulling or tugging a shirt collar to force air into the shirt and allow heat to escape. (most commonly seen in male subjects)
- Pulling the front of a shirt to ventilate heat
- Moving long hair away from the back of the neck in order to allow airflow
- Adjustments wherein a subject lifts their bottom from a chair for an unusually long period.
Regardless of the type of ventilation behavior exhibited, all are intended to pacify the same need. All ventilation behavior is thus grouped into one single category without variable fluctuations in the upper right corner of the cell.
For more information on Tactical Behavioral Science, or to receive more details on the 8-hour training course, click here.
| NMLEA 2018-2019 workshop planning taking Place — First cities selected!
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NMLEA
As reported in previous weeks, the Academy staff is working on its workshop plans for the balance of the year, and into 2019. With the goal is to deliver a workshop in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Gulf Coast, Great Lakes, Northwest and Southwest areas, some cities have been selected:
Boston, Miami, Indianapolis, San Diego, Seattle, Houston have been selected as the workshop sites, with more locations in discussion and planning. Dates to be chosen and released in the coming weeks.
The 1 or 2 day Workshop Agendas include subject areas like these: Tactical Behavior Science, Advanced Firearms training, Maritime Active Threat Response, Industry State of the Union (hear directly from key manufacturers), Grant Forecast (what's on the horizon as it relates to the PSGP,) Training Advances in the Maritime First Responder Community, National Maritime Intelligence Efforts (and how they relate to you and your area of operations,) and the latest in Maritime Border Security.
Would you like a workshop in your area? You can be a part of the planning process by letting us know when and where you would like to have the workshop. Just send an email to info@nmlea.org with "Workshops" in the subject line. Make your recommendations and we’ll be sure to include you in the process. Or, if you like to brainstorm about how a workshop would look in your area, reach out to the boss directly: Mark.DuPont@nmlea.org.
NMLEA
An Interview with Greg "Cruz" Grutter, one of the Nation's premier firearms experts and instructors, with local, federal and military law enforcement/firearms experience.
Maritime firearms training is one of the areas that has been neglected over the years. All across the country, finding an agency that actually practices waterborne engagements or one that strives for proficiency of their officers on the water is rare. Learn more about how an advanced maritime firearms course can be tailored to your department, agency, or region and customized to meet the needs of your officers, by contacting the Academy at info@nmlea.org. You'll learn how the Nation's best firearms instructors can provide you the "hands-on" skills training that the officers who patrol, protect and preserve our maritime domain deserve.
By Bambi Majumdar
 There have been more than 350 cyberattack incidents in K-12 schools since January 2016. These incidents include phishing attacks that resulted in breaches or hacks and the disclosure of personal data. There were also ransomware attacks, denial-of-service attacks and other incidents that resulted in school disruptions and unauthorized disclosures. Cybercriminals target the education sector for reasons other than immediate monetary gains. They want access to extensive financial information and sensitive personal data, and they also want their hands on valuable proprietary research data.
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The Globe Post
Global maritime piracy may see its first significant increase by the end of this year since the height of the Somali piracy in 2010. In the first six months of 2018, there have been 107 attempted and actual attacks by pirates globally, up from 87 in the same time span last year, according to a new report from the Interregional Coordination Center International Maritime Bureau.
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The Kansas City Star
Mary Schiavo read the headlines in horror 19 years ago when 13 people onboard a duck boat in Arkansas drowned after it sank in Lake Hamilton. The former Inspector General for the Department of Transportation thought then that Congress and the U.S. Coast Guard should act immediately. They needed to strengthen regulations regarding canopies on the vessels, enforce stringent life jacket requirements and either ban duck boats altogether or crack down on their industry. None of that happened. Then came the horrific headlines from another duck boat tragedy on Table Rock Lake near Branson. This time, 17 of the 31 on board were dead, five of them children
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The Boston Globe
A few weeks ago, the director of national intelligence warned that U.S. computer systems are so vulnerable that the nation may be facing a "cyber 9/11." Then the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revealed that Russian hackers could get inside the nation's utilities and turn off the lights in much of the United States. What next? How about some payback, targeting the attackers who target us?
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WDAY-TV
Little Alan's Law will stiffen the penalties for drunk drivers in Minnesota. "A young boy was killed in a tragic accident this past winter," said Clay County Lieutenant Mark Empting. Eight-year-old Alan Geisenkoetter was killed by a drunk driver on a snowmobile. The snowmobiler, Eric Coleman, had multiple DWIs. His blood alcohol content was .165, three hours after the incident. With the old law, if you lost your license by getting a DWI in a car or truck, you also lost your license for your ATV. With the new law, you'll lose your license for your snowmobile and for your boat.
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The Washington Post
When hackers took over two-thirds of D.C. police’s surveillance cameras days before the 2017 presidential inauguration, it appeared that the cyberattack was limited to elicit a single ransom payment. But court documents show that the alleged scheme that January was far more ambitious. Federal authorities say two Romanians accused in the hacking planned to use the police department computers to email ransomware to more than 179,000 accounts.
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KFMB-TV
Customs and Border Protection recently showed off its newest boat used to keep the San Diego coast safe from smuggling and terrorism. According to CBP Air and Marine Operations in San Diego, the Coastal Interceptor will be operated by a crew of three. The 41-foot, 10-ton vessel, has a range of approximately 350 nautical miles (402 miles).
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